For you, is FAITH more of an EMOTIONALLY or INTELLECTUALLY fulfilling pursuit? Please explain the answer given

Answer 1

Religion (not faith) is, to me, an intellectually fulfilling pursuit; faith does not enter into it in the way you imply.

Answer 2

I believe that it is neither one nor the other. I know there are cynics out there, that think religion is some useless crutch. I am a christian that believes in God's sinless death and that He took my place, so I could live. This wasn't something that I emotionally decided, but it was something that I felt. Intellectually, I believe that I am intellegent, BA AND MA here...but that really in my relationship to God means nothing.
The word of God is like learning the personality of the person that is closest to me, and understanding what God wants for me. So I think in my faith, that there is never an emotional high, but there are blessings that I may have received that make me emotional. I believe that it is good to know what you believe and why ...and that would be intellectual. But if it's to prove I am smarter than others or better because of my knowledge or intellect, I think it's something that is too prideful. Pride is not something that God desires in any christians life. So Godspeed! I hope you find your answers, John 3:16!

Answer 3

Faith isn't really a pursuit for me. But I do feel it is more of an emotional than an intellectual aspect of my life.

Answer 4

You know you will be confused while choosing the best answer out of the rest, its because faith is some thing you cannot explain, you have to feel it from your inner soul. Still let me do a try.
Faith......not necessarily religious but it can be related to this world also. I personally feel that faith can never be increased or decreased, it comes in or goes out, of it's own, You cannot generate faith in anyone by materialistic ways, Only one can feel it inside the oneself.
Its not something you use your intellectuals to generate it. So its definitely an emotional persuasion.
Again the definition or relevance of faith varies from person to person, you definitely will get confused from the answers you are going to receive.

Definitely not the best answer but I tried to explain this topic to some extent. Still I hope you will get some help out of it.
Best of Luck

Answer 5

The intellectual pursuit feeds the faith which is a combination of the intellectual/rational. So many people over the centuries debate religious ideas, study foundational history, dig at archeological sites, formulate and reformulate, translate and retranslate.. Prayerful reading of all of this feeds the faith.. A human cannot separate the emotional from the rational, vice versa. Even when we make "rational" choices, our emotions lead us to choose one option over another option which might be comparable in many ways.

Answer 6

I think the journey to find faith was intellectually fulfilling; I read countless books from tons of different authors with different minds and ideas.
Faith itself is a lot more of an emotional thing.

It's like art. You learn about the different artists, pieces... and find inspiration from it.

Answer 7

I'm atheist; and so, the word faith for me does not include as broad a definition as it might for a believer of god. Nonetheless, I do employ faith in order to believe that there are some truths which cannot be proved completely. Some simple examples of this are: I trust by faith that the sun will continue to behave according to it's usual pattern; I have faith in my own powers of reason and intellect, that I will be able to prudently apply what I know to be true appropriately; and, I have faith in certain others outside of myself, that they are honest and trustworthy, thorough in habit, capable in thought, etc..

As you might have observed by reading carefully, the examples I've sited here include trust based upon experience and learned facts known to me before applying them to any belief by faith.

Is this a fulfilling persuit? It satisfies but only if it remains true that I have chosen to apply my faith appropriately. If the sun would suddenly behave badly and surprise me, my faith in the sun's next dawning would be terribly shaken.

On intellectual pursuits: Here there is no question that pleasure is the reward of effort and I suspect that all individuals experience the same emotional satisfaction when it comes down to having mastered a difficult concept or having discovered a previously unknown bit of truth. Learning is a pleasure beyond none, but there is no doubt that it's pleasure is a cause and effect ordered pair. For intelligence to be satisfied, it must precede and not follow the reward of pleasure to be gained by pursuing it.

All of this considered, I must conclude that faith is purely emotional when not supported by the intellect and that the greatest pleasure can be derived when intellect is placed before faith.
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Answer 8

Faith is neither emotional or intellectual. It has certain emotional and intellectual aspects to it but in and of itself it's neither of them. Faith is a journey into the unknown. Having complete trust in the one who leads you. Sure it can be frightening and it can be challenging as well. But overall it's an issue of trust. Is trust an emotion? Is it intellectual?

Answer 9

Emotional, having faith mean sometimes not understanding completely why certain thing are as they are, it is the belief that something greater exists, it is putting all your money in a bet with no guaranteed outcome, but no doubt that the winnings are in your favor.

Answer 10

Faith is more emotional. It may be mentally stimulating to figure out the "what's next", "what does all of this mean" of faith but it is the emotions that go along with it that feed the desire.